This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1949
Page
9
Home gardeners weigh how many seeds to sow to avoid crowding while ensuring enough plants. Thin selectively to boost best specimens, as Bailey argues. For tiny seeds mix with sand and sow evenly along the drill line to prevent tangling and waste.
Morgan County farm leaders and 1500 others attended the land reclamation school in Lawrence County led by L T Wagnon. The session covered clearing eroded land, ditch filling, terrace construction, and planting to soil-building crops with PMA aid about half the cost.
4-H Dress Review set for May 7 at Riverside Auditorium Decatur. All club girls urged to attend. awards will be given.
Community life in Morgan County as residents visit clinics and hospitals in Birmingham Nashville and Decatur. Notables include Tom Halbrooks and families with updates on illnesses birthdays and home visits. The report notes births, birthdays and relocations among Austinville and surrounding families.
How to prepare a garden plot by spading in a measured, easy way. Use a 30 by 50 foot space paced over eight days one hour a day. Check soil moisture with a mud pie test before starting and follow a step by step method for trenching and turning soil.
An 18 pound ground hog named Chuck visits Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge while its keeper John De Line from Kentucky aims to bring beavers to Kentucky. Chuck is tame, bottle raised, rides on a shoulder and eats milk bread vegetables and treats. De Line jokes about enrolling Chuck in a dietary course as he grows too big to walk.
A three year TVA study of 19 major lakes shows drownings fell from 51 in 1946 to 45 in 1947, then rose to 50 in the past year. Watts Bar Nottery Chatuge Hiwassee Blue Ridge Great Falls Fontana Ocoee No 3 had no drownings. Guntersville and Hales Bar were most dangerous with nine and seven drownings respectively.
The PMA program pays 90 cents per hundred feet on light soils and 1.30 dollars on heavy soils for terrace work. Eligibility requires terrace drop and channel fall per Extension Service recommendations in Alabama Extension Circular No. 165. Copies available from County Agent L. T. Wagnon. The Morgan County ACA 1949 Handbook contains PMA specifications. obtain from the PMA office in Hartsville. Farmers may request a preliminary survey. some vendors use a build and bill arrangement. No farm may receive more than 750 dollars in PMA payments across all practices.
The Notre Dame football team faces Indiana Washington Purdue Tulane Navy Michigan State North Carolina Iowa Southern California and Southern Methodist in 1949.
The PMA offers farmers assistance to grow winter cover mixtures of legumes rye or small grains. Eligible legumes include crimson clover hairy vetch caley peas red clover with seeding rates 20 30 40 10 15 pounds per acre and small grains oats rye barley wheat with rye grass 25 pounds per acre. Seeded before September 1 1949 fertilization of 30 pounds nitrogen and 300 pounds of phosphate per acre apply. Fallowing starts by July 15 with soil prep and cultivation as needed. PMA provides seed and phosphate. no nitrogen payment.
A modern vehicle description notes interior illumination using 25 to 30 electric light bulbs.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.